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Benign osteopetrosis, in a patient with sickle-cell beta+ (beta+) thalassaemia
D Kassimos1, G Kalteziotis, G Alafakis
11st Department of Internal Medicine, NIMTS Hospital of Athens, Greece.
Clinical Rheumatology
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
We describe a case of a patient suffering from benign osteopetrosis and sickle-cell beta+ thalassaemia. This case allows us to study the combined action of various pathogenetic mechanism involved in both diseases. The coexistence of osteopetrosis with sickle-cell beta+ thalassaemia seems to intensify the anaemia and sickling, but does not appear to modify the course of the osteopetrosis.